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Tachard, Gui (detail)
   
1686
Voyage de Siam, des Pères Jesuites, envoyez par le Roy aux Indes & à la Chine. Avec leurs observations astronomiques, et leurs remarques de physique, de géographie, d'hydrographie, & d'histoire.
Paris, A. Seneuze & D. Horthemels: 1-424. Illus.
–Various later eds. & transls. Briefly mentions a "vaca marina", possibly the dugong, but the accompanying figure (reproduced by Durand, 1983: 207-208) resembles a hippopotamus.

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